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Hosting a website on my domain (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an unraid server, and run swag to connect to a few of my apps. They all run on subdomain, including matrix and mastodon.

My default.conf file in the swag container has some "well-known" parameters set for the above, for delegating from the subdomain to the main domain. Because of this, I'm not sure if I can use the default.conf to point to another apication, or website.

What's the best route for setting up a website here? I want www.mydomain.xyz and mydomain.xyz to point to the same site as well.

I can easily set up apps on subdomains, but I'm not great with actual web hosting with nginx.

Any advice?

Edit: turns out this was very easy, just change server_name in default.conf to www.mydomain.xyz and mydomain.xyz and edit the index.html in the www directory, leave the location block with well-known alone. Should've tried before asking😂

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing your solution. I also would have thought that you could auto-redirect within the nginx config from "www" to the root domain, no? Idk if that would have any impact on the SSL functionality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure you could, but I have no idea how that would look! As for SSL on the main domain, swag has a variable for doing subdomains only (true/false) so I had to toggle that as well.

It required a TXT record to be added into cloudflare, so I don't know how permanent that is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I advise to run Caddy server instead of nginx or apache. It is insanely easier compared to the other two, handles SSL out-of-the-box without any input, and very user-friendly.

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